FINAL
EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Office of the President
Minutes of the College Council Meeting September 14, 2009
Present: Francisco Arce, Josh Casper, Thomas Fallo, Irene Graff, Jeanie Nishime, Michael
Odanaka, Barbara Perez, Susan Pickens, Gary Robertson, Elizabeth Shadish, Luukia Smith,
David Vakil.
1. Evaluation Results discussion
a. #7 Supports and abides by areas involving professional activities legally
delegated to the Academic Senate. There was a comment about how BP 2510
played out. It was felt that it was pushed through. Strong concerns were reported
at the Board meeting. This policy will be brought back and will be one of our
goals for the year.
b. #9 Primarily focuses on students. It is hard to phrase issues and questions to
focus on students. It isn’t top of our agenda but a lot of what we do revolves
around students. We don’t ask how something affects students, it is more each
persons own perspective not what is best for students. Policies last year primarily
focused on students. When minutes were reviewed “students” did not appear.
We don’t talk about students enough. We are losing site of students. The fee
increase was mentioned. There is a concern that students will get dropped that
shouldn’t be dropped.
c. 10.1 Focus on responding to the Accrediting Commissions Recommendations.
We don’t talk a lot about this but we do give updates. Our role is to review
reports. Constituent groups concerns should be brought to appropriate people. If
someone has an issue with the report it can be brought here.
d. 10.7 Incorporate the spirit of Accreditation in every day college operations. We
didn’t do a good job last year. What should be the criteria for student success?
We can look at the Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges. We
can look at graduation rates, and student success rates. How often do we discuss
these issues on a daily basis? The discussion is critical. Success and retention is
discussed in Cabinet. Success and retention is a starting point and we are moving
towards things like improvement.
e. 10.8 Academic integrity as a team. Pete was going to determine how this could
be measured.
f. 10.9 Empower and encourage faculty and staff to create a culture that is safe for
students and conducive to learning. Physically safe and intellectually safe. In the
most recent event with the student making false charges, we are not going to ask
the student to repay any expenses. We respond to any complaint. The campus is
a safe environment and our students are very respectful. When we totally focus
so much energy on students who are rowdy it sends the wrong message. Jo Ann
sent out an email outlining things we are doing for safety on campus. A request
was made to send out information about things done by administrators.
2. We will set our goals next week.
Agenda for the September 21, 2009 Meeting:
1. Minutes of September 14, 2009
2. BP 3430 Prohibition of Sexual and Other Forms of Harassment
3. BP 5500 Academic Honesty & Standards of Conduct
4. AP 5520 Student Discipline & Due Process Procedure
5. College Council Goals 2009-10
College Council Goals 2008-2009
1. Focus on responding to the Accrediting Commissions Recommendations.
2. College Council members will report to and from their constituent groups. This will be
done quarterly.
3. Review annually – El Camino Community College District – Vision Statement, Mission
Statement, Statement of Philosophy, Statement of Values, Guiding Principles &
Strategic Goals for 2007-2010.
4. Continue to build a sense of (campus) community. Assigned to Luukia & Angela.
5. Complete 10 policies and work towards pairing procedures with policies. The goal is to
get everything posted.
6. All Administrative Procedures that accompany Policies will go through College
Council.
7. Incorporate the spirit of Accreditation in every day college operations.
8. Academic integrity as a team. Pete will determine how this can be measured.
9. Empower and encourage faculty and staff to create a culture that is safe for students and
conducive to learning. Physically safe and intellectually safe.